On the outskirts of Beijing, on a road that must be passed to go to the National Temple, Li Mingyue and her maid Hongmei squatted in the forest on the side of the road, and they didn't know what they were waiting for.

"Have you inquired and are you sure they're going to park here?"

"Sure, Princess He'an is arrogant and stubborn, but she likes to eat folk stalls."

"That's good......"

The two of them squatted in the jungle, and the tall grass covered them up, and they would not be able to see them unless they looked closely.

After only half a cup of tea, a carriage appeared at the end of the road, and the decoration was for the royal family. When the carriage arrived not far from Li Mingyue, it suddenly stopped, and two people came down from it, a girl and a woman......

Li Shenlan returned to the palace three days later, and after about ten days in Fushui Mountain, Yin Chen went to the Yangxin Palace as soon as he returned to the palace, leaving Li Shenlan alone to return to Jinghe Palace first.

"You're going to forget about me." Concubine Xiang complained to Li Shenlan with a smile, but her face was not angry at all.

"It's okay to complain about Shen Lan, it's boring to be absent from my sister these days, and I can't find anyone to play chess."

"You don't have a poor mouth, I look left and right you seem to be darker?"

Hearing this, Li Shenlan touched her face a little shyly, but she had to turn black. I dragged Yin Chen out hunting for several days in a row, or I went to climb the mountain to watch the sunrise and sunset, and it was strange that it didn't get dark.

"It's my sister who is too playful, by the way, I caught a lot of game in the mountains and brought it back for my sister to taste."

"You can hunt!" Concubine Xiang was so excited that she had never heard the word hunting except for hunting in autumn every year. When I was a child, I followed my father and brother to the barracks, and I often hunted some game to eat.

"It's not hunting, my sister only uses a slingshot......" Li Shenlan smiled a little embarrassedly.

"By the way, you just came back and haven't had time to see the queen, let's take the game you brought back to the queen, she hates the smell of oil smoke the most!"

Concubine Xiang said with a gloating expression, and without waiting for Li Shenlan's reaction, she pulled her and ran to Changle Palace.

"Don't you have to go and say hello to the Queen Mother first?"

Walking on the road, Li Shenlan was still a little uneasy, although the Queen Mother really didn't stare at herself much these days, but she always felt that something was weird, but she couldn't say it.

"That old woman is not interested in seeing you now, she has been taking care of Princess He'an's return to the palace recently, and the others are ignored."

In this palace, Concubine Xiang dared to shout Yin Chen and the old woman.

"Princess He'an?" Li Shenlan didn't react for a while, after all, she hadn't heard of this person since she entered the palace.

"It's the emperor's eldest daughter, born to Concubine Liang, because she was born in a bad body, so she lives in the national temple with Concubine Liang all the year round, and every year when the temperature is stable, she will go back to the palace to live for a while. Originally, it was going to arrive two days ago, but there was an accident on the road and An, so it was delayed. ”

Seeing Li Shenlan thinking there, Concubine Xiang thought that she was worried about He'an's impact on herself, and hurriedly explained:

"She's just a little doll at no more than seven years old, you don't have to be afraid. But ......" Concubine Xiang said and suddenly her face became serious, giving people a little more serious.

"Her aunt, that is, the eldest princess, will also follow back to the palace, this woman is very strange, she is silent on weekdays, but she always plays a big role at critical times. Because of this, it is unpredictable. ”

The eldest princess Yin Jingya, Yin Chen's half-sister, because of the early death of her biological mother Empress Xiaode, she has been raised under the knees of the current Queen Mother since she was a child.

Yin Chen is very fond of this sister, who can be regarded as a sibling sister, and when he first became the prince, he asked Yin Jingya to be crowned Princess Yunxiu, when Yin Jingya was only three years old, and she couldn't reach the age of the title.

"What do you say, sister?" What does it mean to be incomprehensible?

"Do you know Jia Jieyu back then? At the beginning, she persecuted the queen mother several times, and finally almost killed the mother. At that time, the emperor wanted to convict, but he couldn't find evidence, and in the end, it was exposed by the eldest princess who was away all the year round. ”

A person who has not been in the palace all the year round, but can feel the things in the palace so clearly, it is not terrifying.

The two of them analyzed and were energetic, and they arrived at Changle Palace after a while.

"Si Juan! Si Xuan! Concubine Xiang screamed a few times, and she knew that she was very excited when she heard the tone. As soon as she entered the door, she didn't care about any rules, and when she saw Xiyan raising her voice, she asked her to go to the yard to set up a barbecue grill.

"The concubine asks the queen to say goodbye, and the mother is blessed with peace." Li Shenlan is not like Concubine Xiang, she always has to abide by the rules.

"Hurry up, I know that you are back and see Concubine Xiang happy. You don't know, she can't find you these days, she always pulls Bengong to play chess, and Bengong can't play her. ”

The queen pretended to be angry and glared at Concubine Xiang as she spoke, causing everyone present to laugh non-stop.

"Don't laugh, Shen Lan came back with game from the mountains, and as soon as I came in, I ordered Xiyan to set up a shelf, and we will roast it outside in a while!"

"Arlo!" The queen looked a little angry. But in the end, she couldn't resist Concubine Xiang's temperament, so she could only drag her to the yard.

In the sky above the courtyard, the smell of barbecue wafted after a while.

The barbecue is difficult for the experienced Xiang Fei, who roasted a rabbit after a while, wrapped in chili noodles and didn't care about any image, tore off a leg and stuffed it into her mouth.

"Delicious, delicious! Si Juan, you try it, my craft is not seen back then! ”

The queen sniffed the sleeves with some disgust, and sure enough, the regular clothes had already been stained with the smell of barbecue.

Seeing that the queen's face was not good, Li Shenlan hurriedly stretched out her hand to finish the plate handed over by Concubine Xiang, and asked with a smile, "How can my sister's craftsmanship be so good?" ”

Concubine Xiang talked about where to eat, but only the queen smiled and returned to the original reason.

"When I was a child, the first emperor hunted every autumn, and she would be coquettish and rolling, and she had to follow General Zhao to the paddock. She didn't count it yet, and she insisted on pulling up the palace. After I went, the old general took the young general to take charge of the hunt, and she pulled me to wait outside the camp tent to build a charcoal fire early.

Speaking of which, at that time, the entire Miss of the Beijing family belonged to her who was not a lady at all, and she was a tomboy. ”

The queen's tone of voice was mixed with nostalgia, and even said that Concubine Xiang had some pampering in her eyes.

"You still say that I, Shen Lan, you don't know her, that time I asked her to help me watch the barbecue, but when I came back, there was a skeleton of the chicken!"

Concubine Xiang shouted unconvinced, how can she still look like a mother, she is simply a little bully who has not grown up.

"Where is a chicken, it's a little chicken......"

The queen also defended, for fear of losing a reputation for deliciousness.

There was a lot of laughter and laughter in the Changle Palace, even the people passing by couldn't help but look sideways, who would have thought that several masters and mothers who followed the rules and were serious and serious on weekdays would be so happy in private.

"Niangniang, I heard that Cuiyue from the Bamboo Palace came over to ask to see Niangniang."

The three of them were fighting, and Xiyan suddenly trotted over, thinking that Wang Jun'er would not be easily disturbed on weekdays, so the queen asked people to come in.

"Slave maid to the queen's mother, Xiang concubine's mother, Lan concubine's concubine, please be safe."

The queen nodded, wiped the grease on her hands and asked, "Get up, is there something wrong with Wang Changzai?"

"Back to the queen's mother, my master is not feeling well today, and he sent the imperial doctor to come over and see that he is already a month pregnant."

Wang Jun'er is pregnant.

When the queen heard the news, she fixed her hand for a while, if it weren't for Concubine Xiang's light cough and reminder, the queen would be rude.

"This is a happy event, can the emperor be notified there?"

"As soon as the emperor returned to the palace, he entered the Palace of Nourishing Heart and did not come out, my master said that the six palaces are all ruled by the queen's mother, so I naturally want to inform you first."

Cuiyue Li Shenlan didn't know much, after all, she was sent by the Internal Affairs Office to serve people. But Wang Jun'er understands that these words are not at all like what Wang Jun'er, who is stunned and honest on weekdays, can say.

"This is always inappropriate, you go to the Heart Cultivation Palace to return to the emperor, and Xiyan goes to Shoukang Palace to inform the Queen Mother. After going back, let Wang Chang cultivate in a good life, and if there is any need, just mention it to the palace, and visit her when the palace is free. ”

Xiyan took the order and took Cuiyue out of Changle Palace, and there were only three people left in the courtyard for the grill.

Concubine Xiang naturally didn't need to say that her mind had never been on the emperor, and she still gnawed on the meat indifferently after hearing the news. But the other two are different.

Li Shenlan was naturally happy for Wang Jun'er, but she always thought that something had been overturned, not sour but a little astringent, and Li Shenlan always felt uncomfortable.

As for the queen, people who have lost their children, watching their beloved husband and her conceive a new life, will inevitably think of the one they lost, and secretly feel sad.

"The concubines on the left and right are fine, so I will leave first and visit Wang Changzai."

In this environment, it was difficult for Li Shenlan to sit down anymore, so she simply got up and said goodbye.

"Wait, I'm afraid that there is no time to listen to the bamboo palace in the past two days, I will ask people to go to the library to find something for you to bring, which is a part of the palace."

The queen didn't want to go, she was afraid that she would be even more sad when she saw Wang Jun'er.

Li Shenlan responded, and waited for the palace people to choose the gifts, and then got up and retired to listen to the Bamboo Palace.

After Li Shenlan left, Concubine Xiang finally put down the food in her hand and quietly looked at the queen who was stunned.

"Sijuan, don't think about it." Concubine Xiang patted the queen, but she didn't react at all.

For a long time, when Concubine Xiang thought that the queen couldn't speak, "It's not that I don't understand him, and I know what he means to Shen Lan, but seeing that he has a child with someone else, I still ......"

The queen didn't continue, her choked voice had already betrayed her, and Concubine Xiang on the side felt distressed in her eyes.

"You just understand him too well, so you're trapped inside."

Except for the queen, no one understood the meaning of Concubine Xiang's words, but the queen understood it but still allowed herself to be trapped in her heart prison.

Listening to the Bamboo Palace, as soon as Li Shenlan entered the door, she saw Wang Jun'er sitting on the bed, with a happy smile on her face.

"Jun'er!"

Seeing Li Shenlan come in, Wang Jun'er's expression became strange for a moment, but it was only for a moment. The next second, she got up and got out of bed to salute Li Shenlan.

"I've seen Lan Concubine......"

Li Shenlan hurriedly stepped forward to help her up, "Why are our sisters separated, and you can't do such a big gift when you are pregnant." ”

I can't say what is different, but Li Shenlan can obviously feel that Wang Jun'er has changed and become very strange.

"Always in the palace, these rules must be taken to heart." If it were in the past, Wang Jun'er would never say these polite words.

"You're mad at me."

Li Shenlan used an affirmative tone, she was either a fool, or Wang Jun'er had been a little estranged from herself since she was promoted.

"Where did my sister say?" Wang Jun'er showed a puzzled expression: "Now that my sister is a concubine, my sister sticks to you every day and falls into the eyes of others, and I still think I want to touch my sister's light." ”

"Jun'er, no matter what position I have for you, I have never changed, don't be like this."

For some reason, Li Shenlan looked at the woman in front of her and was a little scared.

Li Shenlan wanted to say something more, but was interrupted by Wang Jun'er's words.

"My sister came to congratulate me on being pregnant, what gifts did you bring?" Originally, this was a pleasing joke, but now Wang Jun'er always feels like a mockery when he says it.

The queen was careful, not only brought her own one, but also specially prepared one for Li Shenlan, which saved her embarrassment.

The two chatted politely for a while, and Li Shenlan was uncomfortable staying here, so she excused herself and said that there was something wrong, and got up and went back to Jinghe Palace.

After Li Shenlan left, Cuiyue came back. Seeing a pile of congratulatory gifts on the table, I had an idea in my heart.

"Why did the little master get out of bed, the imperial doctor said that he should lie down and rest more."

Wang Jun'er shook her head without being salty, fiddling with the jewelry that Li Shenlan had just sent, and she couldn't see her joy or anger.

"This Lan Concubine Niangniang is really kind, she didn't come to us in the past, but now that she knows that the little master has a body, she rushed over."

"Shut up!"

Wang Jun'er whispered to Cuiyue, but there was no intention of punishment in the end.

"The slave and maid are telling the truth, the little master is a kind-hearted eye, but the slave and maid's heart is all for the sake of the little master. This Lan Concubine Jin has not come to you for more than half a month, and she went to Changle Palace when she came back from Fushui Mountain. ”

Cuiyue stopped halfway through speaking, and saw that Wang Jun'er didn't mean to stop, so she was even more courageous.

"You don't know, the slave maid just went to return to the queen but saw Concubine Lan and Concubine Xiang, the three of them eating barbecue in the courtyard. The queen mother and Concubine Xiang are friends who play small, and Lan Concubine squeezed in her heart for what, the little master's heart is like a mirror. ”

What else can I do, the queen is the master of the harem, who doesn't want to hurry up and have a better life in the future.

"The queen and Concubine Xiang are both nobles from official families, so Concubine Lan naturally told them something. Speaking of which, I'm just the daughter of a businessman, and if it weren't for this year's open general election, I wouldn't even be able to do this. ”

Wang Jun'er whispered, the string of beads in his hand was torn alive, and the jade beads were scattered on the ground, rolling everywhere.

"But no, the little lord was pregnant with a dragon fetus, but the queen didn't even come......"

"Shut up!"

Without waiting for Cuiyue to say more, Wang Jun'er picked up a bracelet on the table and smashed it on Cuiyue.

"Yo, it's not the right time for the slave to come."

A voice suddenly came from the door, and when I saw it, it was Aunt Ruozhu beside the Queen Mother.

"Why is Aunt Ruozhu here?"

In the end, it was the queen mother's personal palace maid, Wang Jun'er got up and greeted her with a respectful smile.

The queen mother learned that the little master had a body, so she specially sent slaves and maids to pass the decree.

Listening to the bamboo palace is often in the Wang family, it is granted by heaven, it is a sign of internal suffering, it is bred, and it is a nobleman who is crowned by Jin. ”